Privacy Policy

Who we are

This site is operated by Into The Heavy Underground (“we”), Tramstraat 20, 8680 Koekelare, Belgium.


Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed by mail at info@intotheheavyunderground.com.


Information we may collect from you

When you use this Site or contact us by e-mail, social media, SMS, telephone, or other methods, we may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information you give us, including:
    • Forms filled out by you on the Site;
    • Content of correspondence with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise;
    • Site registration;
    • Subscriptions or orders placed on the Site;
    • Participation in discussion boards or other social media function on the Site;
    • Entering a competition, promotion or survey;
    • If applicable, resume, work history, CV, resume or other job application information;
    • Reporting a problem or requesting support for the Site.

The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone-number, date of birth, payment information, personal description, photographs or images or comments.

  • Information we collect about you
    With regard to each of your visits to our Site we may automatically collect the following information:
    • Technical information, including IP address, login information, browser type and version, time zone settings, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
    • Information about your visit, including the full URL clickstream to, through and from our Site (including date and time);
    • Pages you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

We may also collect information about your devices (including phones, computers or other devices) where you access and visit our Sites. Such information may include unique device identifiers and moblie network information (including phone number), IP address, language and time zone, operating system, hardware version, device locations (including specific geographic, such as through GPS, Bluetooth or WiFi signals).


Information we collect from other sources

We also work with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, search information providers, credit reference agencies, third parties who enable sign on functionality and social network integration) and may receive information about you from them.

If you choose to use features on this Site that connect to your online profiles, accounts or services (including social media accounts) (“Connected Accounts”), we may collect any information that you permit through your settings on those Connected Accounts. For example, if you log in to our site using your Facebook account and choose to allow Facebook to share your profile with us, we may collect that information. Information we receive from Connected Accounts includes email address, first and last name, location (hometown and country), gender, date of birth, likes, posts or other social activity. Please review your Connected Account privacy settings to control what information is provided to us through this option.


How your information may be used

We may use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To help us respond to your queries;
  • To provide you with relevant information about products on our Site;
  • To provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about or that we feel may interest you;
  • To make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our Site about goods or services that may interest you or them;
  • To provide or permit third parties to provide targeted advertising via websites you visit about goods or services that you may find interesting (see more on this in our Cookies Policy below);
  • To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising via we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
  • To track the progress and number of entries in competitions and promotions;
  • To allow you to interact with our Site, for example by posting comments or to share information from our Site on third party social media platforms;
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
  • To manage your access to the services or notify you about changes to the services;
  • To comply with legal and regulatory requirements;
  • To administer our Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • To improve our Site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
  • As part of our efforts to keep our Site safe and secure.

We may combine information we receive from other sources with information you give to us and information we collect about you (including information in relation to your devices). We may use this combined information for the purposes set out above.


Disclosure of your information

We may share your personal data with selected third parties including:

  • Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you in order to provide you with a product or service;
  • Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors to provide you with information about promotions and offers;
  • Advertisers, advertising networks and social networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. We may also use aggregate and other information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience;
  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our Site;
  • Third parties when you consent to or request such sharing.

We may disclose your personal data to third parties:

  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
  • If ITHU that controls this Site or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets;
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with an y legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of service and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of ITHU, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purpose of fraud protection and credit risk reduction;
  • To any other third party where lawful.

Storage and transfer of data

All the information you provide may be processed and stored, transferred or accessed by entities around the world as described in this policy. We will take steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We have put in place technical and organisational procedures designed to safeguard the information we collected on this Site.

Unfortantly, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.


Social media and other third parties that provide content, advertising or functionality on our services

Some of the content, advertising and functionality on our Site may be provided by third parties that ar not affiliated with us. For example, you may have the opportunity to log in to our Site using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal data with us. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on this Site to your profile page to share with others within your network.

Third-party advertisers also may have a presence on our Site. These and other third parties may collect or receive certain information about your use of our Sites, including through the use of cookies and other Internet technologies, and this information may be collected over time and combined with information collected across different websites and online services.

Some of these companies participate in industry-developed programs designed to provide consumers choices about whether to receive targeted advertising. Please visit the websites operated by the Network Advertising InitiativeDigital Advertising Alliance, and European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance.


Children

This Site is not directed toward children (as defined by local law) nor does ITHU knowingly collect information from children (as defined by local law) without parental consent except where in compliance with applicable laws.


Your rights

You may be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to object to or request the restriction of processing of your personal data, and to request access to, rectification, erasure, and portability of your own personal data by contacting us as described in the “Contact” section. We may require you to prove your identity with approved identification if you request this information.

You may also be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that our processing of your personal data infringes applicable law.

You are responsible for keeping your information current and up-to-date. You may update your information by contacting us as described in the “Contact” section.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and us your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, you may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails, accessing the email preferences in your account settings page or you can contact us as described in the “Contact” section.


Links to third party websites

Our Site, our newsletters and other communications may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.


Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any material changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page prior to the change becoming effective and/or we will notify you through the Site or, where appropriate, by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.